I really can’t muster any outrage. I mean, do people want a department dedicated to rolling background checks on college students? He wasn’t indicted until 2015 and it initially looked like a statutory charge that would be covered under Romeo and Juliet laws. I’m not sure what the expectation of the college was here…

Before we scream “stop all pipelines” you should research accident rates and costs to transport oil via truck or train v. pipeline. Pipeline is actually safer with the huge caveat that they need to properly maintain said pipelines. The well-founded complaint is that don’t maintain them until there’s a spill.

Anyone who tells you America is the most racist country on earth is someone you needn’t take seriously until they finish (or retake and pass) a 200-level world history class.

Bingo.

Thank you! I just posted a similar thing about how both Bernie and Trump had developed cults of personalities and how their followers wanted their candidate to force the “correct” views on everyone. That’s not democratic.

Yeah, but were the Hillary voters choosing her because she is better for democracy or because they hoped she’d be a benevolent progressive dictator.

I believe it. Most of my friends talk about revolution in the sense that they want socialism or anarchy. All of them think being in academia, going to protests, and traveling the world via couch surfing all among like minded people has prepared them for this.

I read an interesting thing several months ago (sorry, I can’t find it now) about how the general terribleness of the population leaves two viable paths: (1) illiberal democracy, where the majority oppresses the minority, and (2) undemocratic liberalism, where liberal protections are imposed against the will of the…

You seem to confuse democracy with liberalism and progressive beliefs. Millennials are more progressive and liberal than older generations, yes. But they support democracy less than older generations do. This is what the article is talking about.

This must be Bannon’s idea. Whatever it takes to get a Jew out of the country.

“Trump: Jared Kushner could help make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.” “Or he could not,” Trump continued. “Fuck if I know. You’re all terrible. Sad!”

Eh, counterpoint is that Flynn foamed at the mouth with hate for Obama and Clinton, is an awful boss that earned Colin Powell’s disregard, is too close to Putin by far, supports Erdogan butchering the opposition and turning Turkey into a dictatorship as he clears away a century of Ataturk’s secularism, decided to go…

That sounds very similar to a few OKCupid dates I went on with guys who appeared to be somewhere on the spectrum. The overall awkwardness, the dead silence after answering a question (as if this were a job interview), and the inexplicable contacting me later to ask for a second date in spite of it all.

I think that a lot of people think the Vice Presidential candidates for both parties are the better options to actually be the President.

Full Frontal got an early draft of Hillary’s remarks.

As the locals would say, he robbed them blind.

there is bound to be a big psychological difference though between the kind of serial rapist that looks for or creates situations in which women will become vulnerable to them (maybe by getting them very drunk or drugging them) and date rapists that rape their friend and don’t think of what they did as rape. what i’m…